If you love Panera Creamy Tomato Soup, you will love it even more at home! We made it in the Instant Pot for an easy homemade version of this Panera favorite. Tomatoes, herbs, and sweet onions are blended together and splashed with cream to form the coziest soup you’ve had all year.

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Panera Creamy Tomato Soup In The Instant Pot

I love Panera so much, for so many reasons. One being that they use fresh ingredients and make real food. Really good food. When we are out, we usually choose Panera for lunch. Here is the thing though…I want a whole bowl of soup. I do not want to pick two. I’m not going halvsies on my soup and sandwich; a girl is hungry.

When I make this soup at home, I get a whole bowl of soup and none of the social anxiety. And you know what else? I can have a sandwich too. A whole one. The fact that it doesn’t cost two $20’s is just a bonus.

If you can’t go out, won’t go out, or just can’t handle eating all those $20’s for lunch, you can totally make this at home whether you have an Instant Pot or not. In the recipe at the end, I will give instructions in the notes for making this yummy tomato soup on the stove top too.

Instant Pot Panera Creamy Tomato Soup

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If you love Panera Creamy Tomato Soup, you will love it even more at home! We made it in the Instant Pot for an easy homemade version of this Panera favorite. Tomatoes, herbs, and sweet onions are blended together and splashed with cream to form the coziest soup you’ve had all year.

Instructions

Set the Instant Pot to “Saute”, add butter, onions, and 1/4 tsp salt, cook until translucent and tender, stirring often about two minutes.

Add the tomato flavor slurry (all that stuff you just blended), saute two minutes

Add tomatoes, water/broth, and remaining salt

Set the Instant Pot to “manual” for 5 minutes. Push the toggle on the lid to “sealing”

Once done, release pressure by pushing the toggle on top toward “venting” avoiding the hot steam.

Puree the soup using an immersion blender (my choice) or blender.

Stir in the heavy cream

Notes

*Paneras version of this creamy tomato soup is vegetarian and they use water instead of broth. If you need this to be Vegetarian, use water in place of broth. If you don’t especially need this to be Vegetarian, use chicken broth.

* To make this on the stove top, do everything exactly the same but in a heavy bottom pot such as a dutch oven. Bring it to a boil, and allow it to simmer for an hour.

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